Directory_and_Chronicle_1906 — Page 956

ICHANG-CHUNGKING

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants,

C. E. Carlson,

Agencies

Indo-China S. N. Company, Limited Canton Insurance Office, Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.

MELCHERS & Co., Merchants

H. Rohde, agent

Agencies

Nordd. Lloyd Imp. German Mail Line

do.

Yangtse Line

MISSIONS

For Protestant Missions see end of

China Directory

Tien-choo-tang

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Right Rev. Modestus Everaerts

Bishop tit. of Tadama and Vicar Apostolic of Southern Hupeh

Rev. Giovanni Franzoni, pro vicar Rev. Gabriel van Gestel Rev. Angelus Timmers Rev. Gratianus Laurent Rev. Marcellus Sterkendries Rev. Polydorus Vercruysse Rev. Hubertus Adons Rev. Seraphinus Melissen

Rev. Damianus de Walleff

Rev. Thaddœus Jacobs

Rev. Mathias Vlaminck

Rev. Natalis Gubbels Rev. Deodatus Janssen Rev. Robertus van Voorden Rev. Julianus Adons Rev. Thomas Kempeneers Rev. Franc. Xav. Corbisier Rev. Solano de Cock Rev. Libertus Callebaut Rev. Victor Stolle

Rev. Julianus Verhaeghe

Req. Donatus Sammels

堂母聖 Chen-mou-tang

793

REV. SŒURS FRANCISCAINES MISSION-

AIRES DE MARIE

Rev. Mère Marie Béatrix & 8 sisters

司公船商阪大

Tai-pan tseung-lun kung-tze

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA, Tel. Ad. Shosen

K. Matsuhara, agent

S. Satoh

Agency

The Tokio Marine Insurance Co.

局政郵清大昌宜

POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE

District Postmaster-H. E. Wolf

Postal Officer-E. Rose

SALT LIKIN COLLECTORATE

Commis'ner-in-charge-H. E. Wolf

CHUNGKING

慶重 Chung-king

The city of Chungking, situated in lat. 29 deg. 33 min. 56 sec, N., long. 106 deg. 30 min. E., may well be described as not only the commercial capital of Szechuen, but of the whole of Western China. The foreign import trade centres here, and is then distributed by a smaller class of tradling junks up the various rivers of the province, All exports-yellow silk, white wax, hides, leather, feathers, bristles, rhubarb, musk, opium, and the large assortment of Chinese medicines are received, assorted, repacked, and shipped to Ichang, Hankow, and Shasi, consignments to the latter port being transhipped there into smaller junks, and forwarded to the southern provinces, vid the Tung Ting lake.

The city occupies the end of a high and rocky bluff forming a peninsula, at the junction of the river Kia-ling with the Yangtsze, 1,400 miles from the mouth of the Tatter. The principal streets of the city, in which are many fine shops, are on the side of the Yangtsze. It is surrounded by a crenelated stone wall in good repair, which is some five miles in circumference, pierced with nine gates. This wall was built in 1761, replacing an older one. The climate of Chungking is depressing, the summer being hot and damp, the winters raw and chilly, with thick fogs from November

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